Possession Quotes

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I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and… — Mary Kay Ash
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything… — Eckhart Tolle
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right… — Cesar Chavez
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real… — Thomas Carlyle
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. — Saul Bellow
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. — Alexander Smith
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. — Thomas Browne
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body — George Carlin
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest. — Ben Jonson
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In… — Dalai Lama
Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love. — Yanni
See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry… — Robert Collier
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the… — Ellen Key
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power… — Dalai Lama
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until… — Evelyn Underhill
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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